Conviction Quotes - Page 32

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  Adam Pally

  Strong, Thinking, Discipline

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.

  Riz Ahmed

  Believe, Eye, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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• Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Emotional, Ideas

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• WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.

  Maimonides

  Real, Reading, Believe

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.159, Aeterna Press

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• I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Believe, Men, Doe

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• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  Barney Frank

  Block, Gay, Bisexual

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• It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Views, Political

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• How thankful we ought to be ... how thankful we are, for a prophet to counsel us in words of divine wisdom as we walk our paths in these complex and difficult times. The solid assurance we carry in our hearts, the conviction that God will make his will known to his children through his recognized servant is the real basis of our faith and activity. We either have a prophet or we have nothing: and having a prophet, we have everything

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Real, Heart

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• I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

  Tim Walberg

  Citizens, Should, Hard

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• It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, Views

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• 40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.

  Bill Maher

  America, Records, World

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• I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Long, Evil, Mind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London”, p.2

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• [Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Integrity, Men, Soul

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

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• An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  War, Book, Finals

  "The Evolution of A Revolt". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, October 1920.

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• There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.

  David Limbaugh

  Strong, War, Humility

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• The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Independent, Rights, People

  Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

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• Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

  Luanne Rice

  Writing, Compassion

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• We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Real, Party, Practice

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• I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

  Shiv Khera

  Thinking, Persons, Carrie

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• We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Years, Tolerance, Islam

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• ....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  May, Emotion, Harmony

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• Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

  Aung San

  Rights, Safety, Choices

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• Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

  Billy Graham

  Cancer, Heart, Mean

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Giving Up, Men, Defense

  "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (зp. 289-290), 1944.

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